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[NEWS RELEASE
FOURTH STREET AT CONSTITUTION AVENUE NW WASHINGTON DC 20565 . 737-4215/842-6353
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Katie Ziglar(202) 842-6353
OLEG GRABAR TO DELIVER 1989 ANDREW W. MELLON LECTURES
Washington, D.C., April 17, 1989 - Oleg Grabar, a distinguished
scholar of Islamic art and architecture will be the National Gallery's
1989 Andrew W. Mellon Lecturer in the Fine Arts. Professor Grabar will
deliver a series of six lectures from April 23 through May 28.
Since 1952 the annual Mellon lecture series has served as a
forum for an individual who exemplifies excellence in the history,
criticism, and theory of the visual and performing arts. The lectures are
published through the National Gallery of Art and Princeton University
Press as part of the Bollingen Series.
The Sunday afternoon lectures will take place in the East
Building Auditorium of the National Gallery at 4:00 p.m. and are open to
the public at no charge. Professor Grabar's series is titled
"Intermediary Demons: Toward a Theory of Ornament." Individual lectures
are as follows:
April 23 A Theory of Demons: Ornament as MediationApril 30 The Problems of CalligraphyMay 7 The Mediation of WritingMay 14 The Mediation of GeometryMay 21 The Mediation of ArchitectureMay 28 The Mediation of Vegetation
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A leading scholar of Islamic art, and currently Aga Khan
Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture at Harvard University, Professor
Grabar is internationally recognized for his distinguished career in
teaching, scholarship, and archaeological expeditions. His most recent
book, co-authored with the late Richard Ettinghausen, is entitled The Art
and Architecture of Islam, 650-1250 (1989) . It is part of the well-known
Pelikan History of Art series. His other publications include The
Formation of Islamic Art (1973); revised and enlarged edition (1987), a
book widely considered a basic primer in the field.
Dr. Grabar has been a professor of fine arts at Harvard
University since 1969, having taught at the University of Michigan from
1954 to 1967. Professor Grabar has served as Near Eastern editor of Ars
Orientalis (1957-1970); Honorary Curator of Near Eastern Art, Freer
Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution (1958-1969); Secretary, American
Research Institute in Turkey (1964-1969); and since 1978, Member of the
Steering Committee, Aga Khan Program for Islamic Art and Architecture. He
is also the founding editor of Muqarnas: An Annual on Islamic Art and
Architecture. His many honors include the College Art Association Award
for Teaching in the History of Art (1984), and a John Simon Guggenheim
Foundation Fellowship (1972).
Professor Grabar was born in Strasbourg, France in 1929. He
received his academic degrees from Harvard University (B.A., Medieval
History, 1950) , the University of Paris (Certificats de licence, Medieval
History and Modern History, 1950), and Princeton University (M.A., 1953,
Ph.D., 1955, Oriental Languages and Literatures and History of Art).
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Professor Grabar has supervised and narrated educational movies
on Isfahan, The Art of the Persian Book, and Persian Presence in the
United States. He most recently appeared on the SMITHSONIAN WORLD program,
"The Vever Affair," produced for public television earlier this year by
WETA, Washington, D.C. and the Smithsonian Institution in conjunction with
the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery exhibition, A Jeweler's Eye; Islamic Arts
of the Book from the Vever Collection.
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